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Post by Druid Hills Radio on May 30, 2018 13:11:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 22:38:56 GMT
Border Security Issue
We send a picture of smiling Pai to the border security with instructions to "separate from parents and house at an undisclosed military base pending deportation to the farthest possible point on earth.
"Ignore claims of grandeur".
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Post by Admin on May 31, 2018 11:41:40 GMT
I'll make a couple comments here, but neither are a defense or a criticism of Pai. 1) Gigabit broadband via DOCSIS 3.1 : No doubt that poor people cannot afford $140/month for it. I don't think I can afford it either, or at least I cannot justify it. What cable companies are reluctant to share though is that it seems like nobody needs a data rate of 1 Gb/sec, the take rate has been very low. I am talking residential, not businesses. BTW while it is called 1 Gig it is really 940 Mb/sec, tops. So if the government were to mandate subsidies to bring the service price way down, it would be an enormous waste of taxpayer money. However there is a certain class of customer who feels they simply must have the fastest, and that is who is buying it. In fact, before we rolled out DOCSIS 3.1, we launched a fiber based residential Internet service of 2 Gb/s that cost $300/month with a $500 setup fee and a $500 activation fee, with a $20/month equipment rental fee. This is WAY less than the same service would cost a business. IMO this was never an attempt to make a profit on this service but rather we put it out there to maintain our position as providing the fastest speeds, over Google Fiber, Verizon, and others. Very, very few people bought it, just a few geeky high tech folks. 2) E-rate: what a nightmare of rules and red tape! So much so that we had to keep a very expensive consultant on-board who knew everything about it, to help keep us out of trouble. I remember one competing provider who attempted to do a customer a favor, and offered them discounts on equipment. That's a no-no, and he went to prison for it. I've been building fiber optic networks for school districts and local governments since the 90s, and typically the first networks were 10 Mbs HALF-DUPLEX networks and the customers were fine with that. Then, partly due to advancing technology but ALSO coinciding with the launch of the E-rate program, these same customers now knew that they needed 100 Mbs networks plus Internet. Why not? They weren't paying, we (the taxpayer) was. By the time I retired they were all getting either 1 Gig or 10 Gig networks, and we had one school district that felt it needed (16) 100 Gig connections, though I am not sure if that deal went through as we didn't have ink on paper when I retired.
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on May 31, 2018 12:11:51 GMT
Bottom line: Pai like his boss is a liar.
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